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Course contents Parliamentary law making Delegated legislation Statutory interpretation Judicial precedent The courts system Alternative to courts Lay people Legal professions Finance of advice and representation The judiciary.…read more

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Parliamentary law making Influences on parliament ­The law commission, political, media andpressure groups influences; green and whitepapers.…read more

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The law commission. The law commission is a government body put in place to review the law and keep it up to date by means of consolidation and codification. The law commission consists of five parts which are solicitors, barristers, civil servants, researchers and support staff.…read more

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Consolidation is a process where by the law commission combine all the laws on one particular area into one act and there are three different ways of doing this1) Pure consolidation- which simply reanacts law into a different place2) Consolidation which allows corrections and minor improvements3) Consolidation of amendments as recommended by the law commission under a procedure adapted in 1965. Most consolidation falls under the third category and only corrections and minor improvements can be made during the process of consolidation. Consolidation was used to codify contract law, landlord and tenant law, family law and the law of evidence all into one act of parliament.Codification is different from consolidation in that the function is to simplify theexisting law rather than to make substantial amendments.…read more

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Media and pressure groups. The media include television, radio, newspapers and journals play a powerful role in bringing issues to the attention of the government. Newspapers in particular promote specific issues or causes. For example the daily mail has often rune headlines on immigration or asylum seekers in order to try to achieve tighter controls, and the sun has consistently campaigned against what it sees as the growing influence of the EU on British life. Another example of media influence was the campaign run by the news of the world in 2000 following the murder of Sarah Payne by a paedophile. It published details of known paedophiles in order to force the government to take action. The result was a register of sex offenders and promise of much closer supervision of those released into the community.…read more